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Re:GitHub mirror compromise incident report by ryan-c on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:58PM (#17459886)
I believe rm -rf /* will work without --no-preserve-root
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Re:GitHub mirror compromise incident report by IntelMiner on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:27PM (#17460149)
GNU rm I believe requires the --no-preserve-root flag these days, to prevent that command from happening by accident
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Re:GitHub mirror compromise incident report by justinsaccount on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:49PM (#17460232)
The shell expands

/*

, not rm.

It expands to /bin /etc /lib and such and is not covered by the sanity check.

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